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The first major race of 2021 has been cancelled: there will be no Tour Down Under (and Cadel Evans Great Ocean Race) next year.

Why do you think I'm hiding in the Veluwe forests?

Just noticed it now, but are you sure that wasn't Annemiek van Vleuten?

It's not going to be close enough for that to be interesting.

[hide] Week 2 - Stages 7-12 Stage Top 3 Riders Vitoria-Gasteiz - Villanueva de Valdegovia Stage 7 October, 27th 1st: Omar Fraile 2nd: Alex Aranburu 3rd: Jonathan Lastra Robert Power Tim Wellens Michael Woods Esteban Chaves Ricardo Carapaz Remi Cavagna Guillaume Martin Nans Peters Dan Martin Jetse Bol Rui Costa Primoz Roglic Willie Smit Omar Fraile José Herrada Enric Mas Luis León Sánchez Alejandro Valverde Logroño - Alto de Moncalvillo Stage 8 October, 28th 1st: Primoz Roglic 2nd: David Gaudu 3rd: Enric Mas Michael Woods Esteban Chaves Ricardo Carapaz David Gaudu Guillaume Martin Dan Martin Davide Formolo Wout Poels Rui Costa Aleksandr Vlasov Primoz Roglic Enric Mas Marc Soler Alejandro Valverde Sepp Kuss B.M. Cid Campeador. Castrillo del Val - Aguilar de Campoo Stage 9 October, 29th 1st: Pascal Ackermann 2nd: Sam Bennett 3rd: Jasper Philipsen Jasper Philipsen Gerben Thijssen Magnus Cort Mihkel Raim Lorrenzo Manzin Emmanuel Morin Pascal Ackermann Max Kanter Sam Bennett Jakub Mareczko Matteo Moschetti Dion Smith Jon Aberasturi Castro Urdiales - Suances Stage 10 October, 30th 1st: Pascal Ackermann 2nd: Sam Bennett 3rd: Jon Aberasturi Jasper Philipsen Gerben Thijssen Magnus Cort Mihkel Raim Lorrenzo Manzin Emmanuel Morin Pascal Ackermann Max Kanter Sam Bennett Jakub Mareczko Matteo Moschetti Dion Smith Jon Aberasturi Villaviciosa - Alto de La Farrapona. Lagos de Somiedo Stage 11 October, 31st 1st: Sepp Kuss 2nd: Wout Poels 3rd: Guillaume Martin Felix Grossschartner Michael Woods Esteban Chaves Ricardo Carapaz David Gaudu Guillaume Martin Hugh Carthy Dan Martin Davide Formolo Wout Poels Aleksandr Vlasov Primoz Roglic David De La Cruz Enric Mas Mikel Nieve Marc Soler Alejandro Valverde Sepp Kuss La Pola Llaviana/Pola de Laviana - Alto de l'Angliru Stage 12 November, 1st 1st: Wout Poels 2nd: Richard Carapaz 3rd: Dan Martin Felix Grossschartner Michael Woods Esteban Chaves Ricardo Carapaz David Gaudu Guillaume Martin Hugh Carthy Dan Martin Davide Formolo Wout Poels Aleksandr Vlasov Primoz Roglic David De La Cruz Enric Mas Mikel Nieve Marc Soler Alejandro Valverde Sepp Kuss [/hide]

It's fascinating how organizers publish profiles of climbs that just are not right. For example today's Alto de la Mozqueta, the second to last climb, it never goes over 10% (apart maybe for the inside of a turn here and there, but that's only a few meters), yet the profile shows a whole big piece at 12%.

I very strongly disagree.

Go back to the beginning of the year...who thought there would be an election-like feeling...but for mass testing for a virus?

Welcome to the Hotel California! Edit: I have no idea why I just posted that here, it's the walkon song playing currently for the boxing. I think I got carried away.

I have being fulfilling my duty and entering the votes into my sheet every evening

I hope the mention of Jacques Brinkman made up for it.

Wait, you're reading it wrong. I mean the boring part from now on is that - for me - there is no competition anymore: the battle is over, I know who won, so the excitement in terms of 'who will win?!' is already over

Both awesome and a little boring because for me there's no excitement in terms of competition anymore

It's a fun thought that I am literally the only person in the world who knows whether or not this is true. And who knows the actual winner. Which may or may not be the same. Who knows?

I can not thank you enough for your help man, wonderful job!

Still here, but to avoid any confusion, I'll withdraw from making picks until further notice

And rightfully so. Earlier this week a KLM Boeing 747 landed for the very last time

You're playing for the team of the very best town of the Veluwe

Boats that were used for fishing on the sea (Zuiderzee), but since the sea was turned into a lake by blocking it off, the type of water and so fish living in it changed and the whole fishing thing - while definitely still existing - became a lot less massive of an industry. Most cities and towns at the sea had their own kinds of botters, Elburg still places a high value on them (there are even the Botterdagen, or Botter Days ). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJsselmeer

Just noticed it now, but it's Botters, plural Actually this made me doubt, since a botter is a kind of boat often used (nowadays mostly for tourism) in Elburg and as singular it might actually even work better

No I'm still here Just waiting to be called, which is probably in a matter of minutes, so most likely I'll miss the next one (but you can ask and wait a minute or two just to be sure)

I'm going for the Delfts Blauw ('Blue of Delft') at E4 and the Spongebob Squarepants ghost at G4

Ireen Wüst is not going to like this very much.

I'm waiting for a call and will probably be away for a while then (at home, but calling). I'll let you know when I become unavailable for a bit (and when I'm back later on), probably somewhere around 5-10 minutes from now.